 | | November 11, 2011 |  | After 18 years Russia is poised to join the World Trade Organization. The Wilson Center's William Pomeranz on the implications of Russia's entry into the global trade group. more | | Nuclear Iran |  | November 08, 2011 Is Iran destined to become a nuclear power? Aaron David Miller and Michael Adler weigh the options, including whether military action might succeed where sanctions and diplomacy so far failed. |  | November 09, 2011 The United States has already signaled that it will use the IAEA report in its continuing campaign to get tougher sanctions against Iran to force it to negotiate on its nuclear ambitions, says Public Policy Scholar Michael Adler. Washington wants to increase international pressure now that it has a documented report from the U.N. nuclear watchdog that Iran has done much more to obtain nuclear weapons than was previously known. |  | November 08, 2011 There are major reasons that Israel and the United States might want to think long and hard about preemptively striking Iran's nuclear facilities, according to Aaron David Miller. | "New Security Beat" Wins 2011 Global Media Award |  | November 07, 2011 "New Security Beat," Environmental Change and Security Program's blog, has won The Population Institute's Global Media Award for Best Online Commentary or Blog. | Hussein's Thoughts During Iran/Iraq War Revealed |  | October 25, 2011 // 4:30pm — 6:00pm Exclusive interviews with Mansour Farhang, David Newton, and William Miller on what they think newly-released Iraqi government documents and recorded conversations from Saddam Hussein mean for the retrospective view of the eight-year conflict. | Wilson in the News | For decades, American presidents and diplomats have been locked in uneasy relationships with Israeli prime ministers from the Likud Party, says Public Policy Scholar Aaron David, and Obama is only the latest in a line of frustrated American presidents and secretaries of state. His problem with Netanyahu is different, however, and will require a new approach. | The successful effort to roll back anti-union legislation in Ohio points to a possible future for the Occupy Wall Street movement, says Senior Scholar Linda Killian. | Michael Alder, an expert at the US-based Woodrow Wilson Centre think-tank, said that the report, included organizational charts, demonstrated that Iran had reinvented its program after 2003, not dismantled it. "Before 2003 Iran had a Manhattan project which it then simply reconstitute and farmed out the activities among different organizations," he said. | Public Policy Scholar Nicholas Schmidle wrote about an Army sergeant tried three times for murder and whether the military sidestepped double jeopardy. | | Off-year elections usually don't attract much fervor, but Ohio labor unions have raised $30 million to defeat an anti-union measure on Tuesday's ballot. The effort has reinvigorated the labor movement nationwide, reports Senior Scholar Linda Killian. | | No question, Islamist parties are more assertive and ambitious than ever, says Distinguished Scholar Robin Wright, and the next decade will be far more traumatic for both insiders and outsiders than the last one, though often due more to economic challenges than Islamist politics. | | Taking the latter path could be disastrous for both Guatemala and the hemisphere. "The assumption shouldn't be that the military is the solution when the military in Guatemala is very much a part of the problem," says Cynthia Arnson, director of the Latin America program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. "Guatemala has to enhance the role of police and justice institutions or risk a return to a pattern of military abuses." | | The Wilson Center's New Security Beat was just selected as one of the winners of the Population Institute's 2011 Global Media Awards in the category of Best Online Commentary or Blog. New Security Beat joins a diverse and distinguished group of awardees that include an Ethiopian serial drama, a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, the PBS NewsHour, and the executive director of the UN Population Fund. | | In China, more people than ever are openly worshiping their faith. This phenomenon is seen in virtually any society where religion has been suppressed and then is permitted to flourish, says Director of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States Stapleton Roy. In China, people have finally had the opportunity to improve their lives rapidly. The old beliefs in Communism and other value systems all have eroded, so people are looking for values. | | "Overall, the levels of violence and the threat of allowing the institutional corruption of the country to deepen are the biggest threats to Guatemala's democracy," said Cynthia Arnson, a Latin America expert at Washington's Woodrow Wilson Center. "The situation has gotten qualitatively worse over the last several years as narco violence has spread from Mexico." | | There is no question that Iranians are committed to a nuclear weapons program, says Public Policy Scholar Aaron David Miller, sanctions and diplomacy will not be able delay or prevent Iranians from acquiring the weapon. | | Radio West's Doug Fabrizio sits down with Senior Scholar Martin Tolchin as a part of their series on the future of journalism. Tolchin is a founder of Politico, a news outlet best known for its constantly updated on-line edition. In a time when many news organizations were cutting back, Politico took the opposite tack, investing in their product and hiring veteran reporters away from The Washington Post and Time magazine. | | | | | | Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
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